Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballybroder (Kilmeen ED), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybroder (Kilmeen ED)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.21630, -8.51264
- SMR number
- GA106-008----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the summit of a low hill in undulating pastureland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. c. 35m) defined by a bank of earth and stone. Abutting the monument at NW is a rectangular annexe (26m NE-SW; 23m NW-SE) defined by a bank; it may be associated.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 October 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.